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Moose Jaw tap water: Grade B, hardness 187 mg/L
By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources
Regional estimateActive water advisory: Do not consume issued 2026-07-23. Distribution system maintenance
B
Water quality grade
Good
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average187 mg/L · prov. avg 178 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.3 μg/L · prov. avg 0.5 μg/L
Hardness
187 mg/L
Lead
0.3 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7.5
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
187 mg/L
Very hard
Lead
0.3 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7.5
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.8 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Reading this page
Moose Jaw's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 187 mg/L (very hard), and pH is 7.5 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.
Lead at 0.3 μg/L is below the 5 μg/L maximum, and fluoride is 0.6 mg/L against a guideline of ≤ 1.5 mg/L.
How to use this page: read the headline metric and provincial comparison first, then supply and treatment notes, then the source footer for the underlying dataset.
Watershed to tap
Supply and treatment
How Moose Jaw draws, treats, and distributes drinking water, from municipal and utility publications. Chemistry grades above come from separate parameter records; this section does not invent plant lab figures.
Source type
Surface water
Research confidence: high
Source waters
- Buffalo Pound Lake
- Lake Diefenbaker (via Qu'Appelle system)
Treatment plants
Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant
Jointly owned with Regina; supplies treated water to Moose Jaw, Regina, SaskWater, and Buffalo Pound Provincial Park. Plant is roughly 30 km northeast of Moose Jaw on Highway 301.
Distribution
City Sewer and Water Division maintains local mains and pumping; chlorine residual and turbidity are monitored daily at three city pumping stations that feed the distribution system.
Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity above the 1 NTU typical target and very hard water.
Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity exceeds the typical 1 NTU aesthetic target.
Figure 1 · Supply chain
From watershed to tap
Compared to provincial average
Saskatchewan · 16 cities in sample
Hardness (city vs Saskatchewan avg)187 mg/L
pH (city vs Saskatchewan avg)7.5
Lead (city vs Saskatchewan avg)0.3 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Saskatchewan avg)0.6 mg/L
Provincial average: hardness 178 mg/L · pH 7.4 · lead 0.5 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
Full parameters
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 187 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 7.5 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.3 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.8 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 2.8 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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Source · ECCC / municipal open data (seed). Last updated 2026-09-01. Refreshed on the site's automated schedule.